” I don’t see Adwoa Aboah when she first walks into the expensively paneled restaurant in SoHo where we’re meeting for lunch. I’m hunched over my phone, desperate for any appropriate question to ask her for Allure’s Skin Guide that isn’t “Do you, uh, use moisturizer?” But then I hear “ ’ello!” and I look up and whoa, Jesus Christo, Aboah’s skin is incredible. Describing her freckle pattern as a series of swirling constellations is tempting but fails to capture their radiance. Her skin tone is what you’d get if you mixed pure honey with the crystalline waters of the Gulf of Guinea. She’s just come from a facial at Orentreich uptown, where she received a rigorous set of extractions — her skin turned bright red, then quelled to perfection. Now it gleams at a conservative 50 watts.” –